Turning windows firewall off
In XP Pro, is there any difference in turning windows firewall off by using control panel > Windows Firewall > Off as opposed to using in a batch file "netsh firewall set opmode disable"? The company I work for wants the firewall off for all their computers, and when they showed me how they want it done they showed me how to do it the first way, but considering how many I have to do, it would be much easier if I could just click one script that runs the above command and does a few other things instead. Are there any differences at all, or are they the EXACT same thing?1 person needs an answerI do too
March 10th, 2010 5:32pm

No difference--do it that way. On Vista or Server 2008, you should use netsh advfirewall firewall instead."Thewhitelynx" wrote in message news:609c60a7-8f03-455f-bf70-dace45e328a2...In XP Pro, is there any difference in turning windows firewall off by using control panel > Windows Firewall > Off as opposed to using in a batch file "netsh firewall set opmode disable"? The company I work for wants the firewall off for all their computers, and when they showed me how they want it done they showed me how to do it the first way, but considering how many I have to do, it would be much easier if I could just click one script that runs the above command and does a few other things instead. Are there any differences at all, or are they the EXACT same thing? Bill Sanderson
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March 10th, 2010 7:29pm

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